Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-07
IT WILL BE LENGTHY.
The Presidents Coming Message
Said TO Contain $4,000 Words.
THE CABINET CONSIDERS THE DOCUMENT.
A New York Journals Forecast Of Its Con.
endations Concerning
Topics Of Vital Interest to the
.xs ,-t Republic.
TO BE READ ON TUESDAY.

will be spent In organizing the House next
Monday, and so it has been arranged MOTTO
send President Cleveland's annual message
to Congress until Tuesday. The Sec
his report, and Is engaged at
his home in arranging the topics
In order. The Secretary of War has
been closeted at his home since his return
engaged on his report Chief Clerk Twee-
dale has been assisting him a good deal Of
the time The finishing touches are being
made to the report and it will probably be
made public Monday morning. Secretary
Whitney has been able to give but few
days work to his report, and, although it
will not be a long one, 1t will be several
days before it is completed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-Secretary Fairchild
has completed the preparation Of his annual
report to Congress, and the final pages were
placed In the printers hands yesterday.
He has been engaged ON this work almost
exclusively for q month. The report is all
in the secretary's own handwriting, and
gives his views in regard to the surplus and
tariff at considerable length It will be
made public Immediately after it's presents
ton to Congress Wednesday afternoon.
New YORK, Dec. ga Washington special
to the Tribune says: 1.-THE President at the
meeting of the Cabinet Thursday submitted
the rough draft of his forthcoming an
nual message to Congress 1t was
fully and freely discussed for nearly four
hours, and will again be sub
mitted on Friday to the Cabinet in the
form in which it is to be sent to Congress.
Meanwhile speculation is rife as to the con-
tents of what will probably be one of the
longest official documents ever written by
Mr.. Cleveland Those who know say that
it will contain approximately twenty-five
Thousand words.
From excellent sources it is ascertained
that Nh. Bayard's department will absorb
the lions share of the Presidents message.
He will announce in the first place either
the result of the labors of the fisheries COM
mission or the fact that they are still at
work. There is an impression prevailing
that the commission will sit for the last
time on Saturday next The message indi-
Gates that the negotiation of new treaty
has been found impracticable-a result said
to be favored by MI. Bayard, who is repre-
sented as despairing of getting treaty
acted upon by the Senate in its present tenn
per. What the President will probably be
able to announce in his message is that the
commission has agreed UPON an interpreter
ton of the treaty Of 1878.
A revision of the naturalization laws the
establishment of central bureau for the
regis. ration of naturalized citizens, and
hint as to the advisability of restricting by
federal statute immigration of an nndesir-
able kind are among the theories discussed
by the President in view of the recent
Anarchist demonstrations in various parts
of the country.
Regarding the tariff and other questions
of finance the President will have little to
say, the present plan being, it is said, to let
the Secretary of the Treasury deal with both
questions at length in his annual report
In general and very guarded way
the President recommends. 1t is understood,
liberal enlargement of the free list, men
tioning, however, by name, none of the
articles which, in his opinion, ought to be
placed there. Upon the wording Of this
part of the message much care and atten-
ton have been bestowed Among those
to whom it has been read, outside of the
members of the Cabinet, are Messrs Car
Isle, Scott and Waterson Mr. Randall has
been given no opportunity to inspect it it
is said
A codiication of the banking laws,
Comptroller of the Currency, is recon-
mended
The President, it is thought, will In eau
tious way recommend LIBERAL system of
appropriations for the Improvement of the
Mississippi river: He will likewise suggest.
it is believed, that appropriations for this
river be made separately and not. as hereto
fore; in the River and Harbor bill, which he
has always regarded as an object of suspie-
ion. more or less
The repeal of the Presumption and
Timber-cu.ture acts is urged in the strong
est terms The necessity of preserving the
National forests is also pointed out
The Pacific railroads, it is understood,
will be the subject of special message to